Will you sell your TVR?
Will you sell your TVR?
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father ted

Original Poster:

3,069 posts

276 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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IF the sliding scale VED tax for 'gas guzzlers' or vehicles with high CO2 emmissions comes in and you have to pay up £1000 a year for the pleasure??????????

Your thoughts please...

I would hate to give up the V8 experience but looking at it in the long run........looks like Brown & Darling may win........the Bs!

rude girl

6,937 posts

288 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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Well if it does come in, who's going to buy it? The market will dip and prices will fall.

Happy times eh?

PetrolTed

34,468 posts

332 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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They threaten this every year. I'm not letting the bastards tax my life into dullitude.

Podie

46,649 posts

304 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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rude girl said:
Well if it does come in, who's going to buy it? The market will dip and prices will fall.

Happy times eh?


hmm... Griff 500....

Batty S4C

12,268 posts

279 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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PetrolTed said:
They threaten this every year. I'm not letting the bastards tax my life into dullitude.

although no censored
petrol prices, insurance and tax.
each proportionally doin each sports car owner up the arse!

Plotloss

67,280 posts

299 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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The used Bentley market may suddenly look very attractive...

PetrolTed

34,468 posts

332 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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I think we need to talk this up. Performance car enthusiasts are looking forward to a crashing market to snap up gas guzzlers for peanuts and use them more than before

shnozz

30,620 posts

300 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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whilst i would like to stick 2 fingers up to the government, I think if I had to pay £1000 a year for a bigger engine as against current tax on a smaller engine i would probably go down the jap tuning route and have something like an S2000, or an Elise I guess.

jon h

863 posts

313 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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If the tax goes up, I will have to drive it MORE to justify the expense!

Jon H

father ted

Original Poster:

3,069 posts

276 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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....yeah...looking on the bright side ,i will sell the runabout car and commute in the Wedge.....sod the neighbours......and while i am at it ,i may detour past Downing street at 3am in the morning!!!!!!!

hmmm nice idea for a convoy?????

rude girl

6,937 posts

288 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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But on the bright side, if the same tax proposals that will see me paying £1000 a year in road tax on the Griff also catch every Mondeo driver in the country, it's going to be a very brave Chancellor to actually bring it in.

And since this proposal is predicated on the change in behaviour that came about after company car tax was changed to be based on emissions, it's fatally flawed. Company cars are changed every three years as standard, so the tax is to encourage people to select more environmentally friendly new cars. If road tax based on emissions was to be applied retrospectively to all existing cars, wouldn't that hit the worse off more than 'rich people' who can afford to trade in for new? Hmmm, not very socially inclusive

So would it work? Not unless they exempted cars over a certain age. Then the business case doesn't stack up (cost of having a more complex system//benefit).

If a company put out proposals where the thinking so clearly lacked vigour in this way, they'd soon be out of business. Robust? I think not.

anita

150 posts

279 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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PetrolTed said:
They threaten this every year. I'm not letting the bastards tax my life into dullitude.


I absolutely agree!!

nubbin

6,809 posts

307 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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It's merely double taxation - use more petrol -> get taxed more at the pumps. Use a bigger engine -> get taxed once a year for the effectively for the same petrol!

in, wankin, one-eyed, twisted, warped, knob heads! Anyone want to go shares on a house in France, and register as a foreign citizen to escape Labour bastard arse- tax ideology?

Can you tell I'm not best pleased?

gemini

11,352 posts

293 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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when I suggested this a few months ago (as in stated the brownites were thinking of doin this) I was told that I was scare mongering! Oh well!

fish

4,063 posts

311 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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When I asked my brother his line was well I can't be without a V8 therefore I'll sit at traffic lights using more fuel to justify the VED cost

jvaughan

6,025 posts

312 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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nubbin said:
It's merely double taxation - use more petrol -> get taxed more at the pumps. Use a bigger engine -> get taxed once a year for the effectively for the same petrol!

in, wankin, one-eyed, twisted, warped, knob heads! Anyone want to go shares on a house in France, and register as a foreign citizen to escape Labour bastard arse- tax ideology?

Can you tell I'm not best pleased?

Already looking at a few propteries... The French love the TVR it always attracts a crowd. Now, what skills to I have to offer the french ?

apprentice

1,219 posts

289 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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PetrolTed said:
I think we need to talk this up. Performance car enthusiasts are looking forward to a crashing market to snap up gas guzzlers for peanuts and use them more than before


....give us a bit of notice Ted in order that we may clear current stocks

shnozz

30,620 posts

300 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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apprentice said:

PetrolTed said:
I think we need to talk this up. Performance car enthusiasts are looking forward to a crashing market to snap up gas guzzlers for peanuts and use them more than before



....give us a bit of notice Ted in order that we may clear current stocks


I'll give you a tenner for the yellow chimaera

trooper1212

9,457 posts

281 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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shnozz said:

apprentice said:


PetrolTed said:
I think we need to talk this up. Performance car enthusiasts are looking forward to a crashing market to snap up gas guzzlers for peanuts and use them more than before




....give us a bit of notice Ted in order that we may clear current stocks



I'll give you a tenner for the yellow chimaera


but only if it comes with 12 months tax

mike s

2,919 posts

278 months

Wednesday 10th March 2004
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apprentice said:


....give us a bit of notice Ted in order that we may clear current stocks

You'll have to get some more Smarts then Peter
Alan